327 Public Service

• Author: Ralph Hone
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[CH327. 3441CHAPTER 327.

PUBLIC SERVICE.

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS.

SECTION.

1. SHORT TITLE.

2. INTERPRETATION OF PARTS I TO IX.

   PART I.

   ESTABLISHMENT, EMOLUMENTS AND PENSIONABLE STATUS.

3. ESTABLISHMENT, SALARY AND ALLOWANCES OF POSTS IN SCHEDULE A.

4. PENSIONABLE STATUS OF POSTS IN SCHEDULE A.

5. ESTABLISHMENT, SALARIES AND ALLOWANCES OF POSTS IN SCHEDULES B TO F INCLUSIVE.

6. PENSIONABLE STATUS OF POSTS IN SCHEDULES B TO E INCLUSIVE.

7. MODE OF PAYMENT OF SALARIES OF POSTS IN SCHEDULES A TO F INCLUSIVE.

8. ESTABLISHMENT OF POSTS IN SCHEDULES G TO N INCLUSIVE NOT FIXED BY NUMBER.

9. SALARIES AND ALLOWANCES OF POSTS IN SCHEDULES G TO K INCLUSIVE AND M AND N.

10. PENSIONABLE STATUS AND CONDITIONS OF SERVICE IN SCHEDULES G TO K INCLUSIVE AND M ANDN.

11. APPOINrFMENT OF PERSONS FOR SPECIAL TRAINING.

12. MODE OF PAYMENT OF SALARIES AND ALLOWANCES OF POSTS IN SCHEDULES G TO N INCLUSIVE.

    PART I.

    POINTS OF ENTRY, INCREMENTS AND STARTING SALARIES.

13. CONVERSION TO NEW SCALES OF SALARY.

14. EFFICIENCY BAR DEFINED.

15. PASSING OF EFFICIENCY BARS IN SALARY SCALES IN SCHEDULES C, E, G, H, I AND N.

16. GRANT, DEFERMENT OR WITHHOLDING OF INCREMENTS.

17. ACCELERATED INCREMENTS.

18. STARTING SALARIES OF NEW APPOINTMENTS.

    PART III.

    PENSIONABLE STATUS AND GRATUITIES OF CERTAIN OFFICERS.

19. PENSIONABLE STATUS OF OFFICERS IN POSTS IN SCHEDULES F, G, M AND N.

20. CERTAIN OFFICERS IN POSTS IN SCHEDULES F, G, H, I, M AND N ELIGIBLE FOR GRATUITY.

21. CERTAIN OFFICERS IN POSTS IN SCHEDULES F, G, M AND N IN TEMPORARY EMPLOYMENT.

22. OFFICERS IN POSTS IN SCHEDULES J OR K ELIGIBLE FOR GRATUITY.

23. OFFICERS IN POSTS IN SCHEDULES J, K OR L AND M OR N IN TEMPORARY EMPLOYMENT.

    PART IV.

    GRATUITIES ON RETIREMENT AND PAYMENTS DUE ON DEATH.

    SECTION.

24. GRATUITY PAYABLE TO NON-PENSIONABLE OFFICER UPON RETIREMENT OR TERMINATION OF APPOINTMENT.

25. GRATUITY OF ONE YEAR'S SALARY TO DEPENDANTS IN EVENT OF DEATH.

26. AUTHORISES PAYMENT OTHERWISE THAN TO EXECUTORS OR ADMINISTRATORS OF MONEY DUE TO DECEASED PERSONS ON ACCOUNT OF SALARIES, ETC.

    PART V.

    EMOLUMENTS OF CONTRACT OFFICERS.

27. CONTRACT OFFICERS MAY ELECT.TO COME UNDER PROVISIONS OF THIS ACT.

28. GRATUITY OF 15o TO CONTRACT OFFICERS ON SATISFACTORY COMPLETION OF SERVICE.

    PART VI.

    REGULATIONS.

29. GOVERNOR MAY MAKE REGULATIONS.

    PART VII.

    REVISION OF NON-PENSIONABLE ALLOWANCES AND SALARIES.

30. POWER OF LEGISLATURE TO VARY, REVOKE OR REINSTATE NON-PENSIONABLE ALLOWANCE.

31. WITHHOLDING OF NON-PENSIONABLE ALLOWANCE A DISCIPLINARY MEASURE.

32. REDUCTION OF SALARIES IF REVENUE OF COLONY REDUCED.

    PART VIII.

    CONTINUING EFFECT OF REPEALED ACT.

33. REPEAL OF ACT No. 7 OF 1960.

34. TRANSITIONAL INCREASE OF TEMPORARY NON-PENSIONABLE ALLOWANCE UNDER REPEALED ACT.

35. CERTAIN OFFICERS TO RETAIN PENSIONABLE STATUS AND CONDITIONS OF SERVICE UNDER REPEALED ACT.

36. OFFICERS IN POSTS DISESTABLISHED BY THIS ACT ENTITLED TO GRATUITY UNDER REPEALED ACT.

37. SAVING OF SECTION 16(1) OF REPEALED ACT.

38. CERTAIN OFFICERS TO BE PAID DIFFERENCE BETWEEN EMOLUMENTS BEFORE AND AFTER APPOINTED DAY.

    PART IX.

    GOVERNOR'S POWERS.

39. GOVERNOR MAY ESTABLISH NEW POSTS OR VARY NUMBERS OF EXISTING POSTS.

    PART X.

    PUBLIC OFFICERS' SECURITY.

40. INTERPRETATION OF PART X.

41. MODE BY WHICH FUTURE PUBLIC OFFICERS MAY BE REQUIRED TO GIVE SECURITY.

42. BOND OF ANY GUARANTEE SOCIETY DEEMED VALID AND EFFECTUAL.

43. PREMIUMS TO GUARANTEE SOCIETY MAY BE PAID FROM TREASURY.

44. BONDS EXECUTED BY A GUARANTEE SOCIETY.

45. BONDS TO BE ADMITTED AND ENTERED OF RECORD.

    PART XI.

    PUBLIC OFFICERS' LEAVE.

    SECTION.

46. INTERPRETATION OF PART XI.

47. VACATION LEAVE.

48. LEAVE OF ABSENCE.

49. CALCULATION OF LEAVE.

50. LEAVE ON NO SALARY IN CASE OF EMERGENCY.

51. EMOLUMENTS OF OFFICERS ON LEAVE.

52. SICK LEAVE.

53. OFFICER ON LEAVE MAY NOT RESUME DUTY WITHOUT PERMISSION.

54. OFFICER ON LEAVE NOT TO ENGAGE IN WORK WITHOUT PERMISSION.

55. APPLICATION FOR LEAVE.

56. PREVIOUS SERVICE ACCOUNTS FOR LEAVE.

57. RULES.

    PART XII.

    PUBLIC OFFICERS' ACTING ALLOWANCES.

58. INTERPRETATION OF PART XII.

59. PAYMENT OF ACTING ALLOWANCES.

    PART XIII.

    ATTORNEY GENERAL.

60. ATTORNEY GENERAL PROHIBITED FROM PRIVATE PRACTICE.

61. ATTORNEY GENERAL TO ACT GRATUITOUSLY IN CERTAIN CASES.

    SCHEDULES.

    PUBLIC SERVICE POSTS, SALARIES AND NON-PENSIONABLE ALLOWANCES.

    CHAPTER 327.

    PUBLIC SERVICE.

    AN ACT TO MAKE FURTHER AND BETTER PROVISION FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT, EMOLUMENTS AND CONDITIONS OF SERVICE OF MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC SERVICE OF THE COLONY.

    [25th June 1964.1 [Commencement Parts I to IX 1st July 1964.

    Part X............16th May 1890.

    Parts XI and XII 17th May 1956.

    Part XIII.........28th May 1931.] 15 of 1890.

    22 of 1896.

    4 of 1931.

    6 of 1956:

    12 of 1956.

    10 of 1958.

    12 of 1960.

    11 of 1964.

    26 of 1964

    G.N. 56 of 1964.

    G.N. 216 of 1964.

    43 of 1964.

    9 of 1965.

    19 of 1965.

1. This Act may be cited as The Public Service Short title.

   Act.

2. In Parts I to IX inclusive of this Act, unless the context otherwise requires'appointed day' means the date upon which Parts I to IX of this Act shall come into operation;

   'appropriate Commission' means, in relation to any member of the Judicial Department to which section 99 of the Constitution applies, the Judicial Service Commission and, in relation to any other public officer, the Public Service Commission;

   'contract officer' means a person employed in the public service of the Colony for a fixed period of time whether or not such employment is renewable on the expiration of such fixed period of time;

   'contract service' means service in the public service of the Colony by a contract officer;

   'Judicial Service Commission' means the Commission established by section 98 of the Constitution;

   'pensionable' means employed in a pensionable office;

   'pensionable office' means any office which is pensionable under the provisions of any Act Interpretation of Parts I to IX

   7 of 1960.

   Establishment, salary and allowances of posts in Schedule A.

   Pensionable status of posts in Schedule A.

   relating to the pension of persons employed in the public service of the Colony;

   'public officer' means a person who is employed in the public service of the Colony;

   'Public Service Commission' means the Commission established by section 95 of the Constitution;

   'repealed Act' means The Public Service Act 1960.

   PART I.

   ESTABLISHMENT, EMOLUMENTS AND PENSIONABLE STATUS.

3. -(1) Notwithstanding the provisions of any other Act, the establishment of posts in the public service of the Colony specified in the second column of Schedule A to this Act shall be permanently fixed at the numbers specified in the first column of such Schedule in respect 'of such posts.

   (2) Every public officer holding a post specified in the second column of Schedule A to this Act shall be entitled to receive and shall be paid the annual salary specified in respect of such post or an annual salary at the rate in the scale specified in respect of such post in the third column of such Schedule and in audition thereto shall be entitled to receive and shall be paid a non-pensionable allowance calculated on such salary at the rate per centum per annum specified in the fourth column of such Schedule.

4. -(1) Every post specified in the second column of Schedule A to this Act, other than the posts of Governor and Aide-ae-Camp, shall be a pensionable office.

   (2) Notwithstanding the provisions of any other Act, but subject to subsection (1) of this section, the whole period of continuous service in the public service of the Colony of every public officer employed in a post specified in Schedule A to this Act, excluding contract service, leave without salary and service whilst under the age of twenty years, whether the whole or any of such service was pensionable or otherwise, shall be deemed to be pensionable service.

5. -(1) Notwithstanding the provisions of any other Act, the establishment of posts in the public service of the Colony specified in the second columns of Schedules B, C, D, E and F to this Act shall be Establishment, salaries and allowances of posts in Schedules B to F inclusive.

   permanently fixed,at the numbers specified in the first column of such Schedules in respect of such posts.

   (2) Every public officer holding a post specified in the second columns of Schedules B, C, D, E and F to this Act shall be entitled to receive and shall be paid an annual salary at a rate in a scale specified in respect of such post in the third column of the Schedule in which his post is specified and in addition thereto shall be entitled to receive and shall be paid a non-pensionable allowance calculated on such salary at the rate per centum per,annum specified in the fourth column of such Schedule:

   Provided that a public officer holding any post specified in the second column of Schedule E to this Act may be paid a salary according to his grade as specified in either of the scales (a) or (b) in the third column of that Schedule and -a non-pensionable allowance calculated on that salary.

6. -(1) Every post specified in the second columns of Schedules B, C, D and E of this Act shall be a pensionable office.

   (2) Notwithstanding the provisions of any other Act, the whole period of continuous service in the public service of the Colony of every public officer employed in a post specified in Schedules B, C, D and E to this Act, excluding contract service, leave without salary and service whilst under the age of twenty years, whether the whole or any of such service was pensionable or otherwise, shall be deemed to be pensionable service.

7. The salaries and allowances of officers holding posts specified in the second columns of Schedules A, B, C, D, E and F to this Act shall be paid out of the Treasury by warrant of the Minister for Finance in the usual manner.

8. Notwithstanding the provisions of!any other Act, the posts in the public service of the Colony which are specified in the first columns of Schedules G, H, I, J, K, L, M and N to this Act shall not be fixed by number.

   Pensionable status of posts in Schedules B to E inclusive.

   Mode of payment of salaries of posts in Schedules A to F inclusive.

   Establishment of posts m...